Silk road
• Not actual roads
• Name given to any route that led a crossed china to to Rome
• 4,000 mile trip
• Had silver, gold, precious gems
Silk
• Romans were not surprised to hear of another civilization hidden over the mountains
Han emperors in china
- The qin dynasty were very harsh on taxes, labor quotas, and strict punishment
- The people of the qin dynasty rebelled and a war of rival kings started throughout all of china
- Two powerful people emerged: xiang yu and lui bang
Han dynasty
- These two leaders ended up hating each other and fought their last battle in 202 b.c – Liu Bang won and declared himself the first emperor of the han dynasty
- - The han dynasy ruled china for more than 400 years. However their rule was broken up into 2 parts because there was a time where they lost their power for a short period of time
Bang’s steps to unified china
- First goal was to destroy the rival kings’ power
- He was going to do this by establishing Centralized government
- This is where the central authority controls the running of the states
- He also lowered taxes and soften the harsh legal punishment of the people
Empress LU
- When bang died his son became emperor, but not really
- The real ruler was the son’s mother. One of the bang’s wives
- When LU died, the people that supported bang were upset, and they excuted the pwople who LU had put into power.
Wudi
- After 30-40 years of turmoil and poor leadership, bang’s great- grandson took control of the hands and his name was wudi
- He is known throughout history as the “ martial emperor” because his idea of expanding china was throughout war
- The first set of people that he had to deal with were the XIONGNU
Xiongnu
- Were fierce nomads known for their deadly archery from horseback
- Usually attacked china’s farms and would take people hostage and steal goods
- Early han emperors would try to send them gifts to stop but they usually would not quit
- Wudi had other ideas and sent 100,000 men to fight them
PYRAMID
- Top tier- emperor
- 2nd- king, governor
- 3rd- state officials, nobles, and scholars
- 4th- peasants
- 5th –artisana,
- 6th- soldiers
- 7th- slaves
Han Technology
Advancements included paper. Paper was invented in 10- A>D before this book were written in silk
-silk is very expensive compared to paper
- So this allowed many more people to get education
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